Word Study · Strong's H5203 · Hebrew
נָטַשׁ
natash
naw-tash'
Strong's 1890 spelling: nâṭash
“properly, to pound, i.e. smite”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)
Rendered in the KJV as
cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer.
- 40occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 17 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 36inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 40 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 36
- וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ2
- וּנְטַשְׁתִּ֣יךָ2
- נִטְּשׁ֖וּ2
- תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ2
- וַ֭יִּטֹּשׁ1
- וַיִּטֹּ֨שׁ1
- וַיִּטֹּשׁ֙1
- וַיִּטֹּ֤שׁ1
- וַיִּטֹּשׁ֩1
- וַיִּטֹּ֖שׁ1
- וַֽיִּטְּשֻׁ֑הוּ1
- וַֽיִּטְּשֻֽׁהוּ׃1
and 24 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 31
- and I will abandon3
- and they were spread out3
- and he abandoned2
- and he left2
- and I will abandon you2
- and they abandoned it2
- he will abandon2
- [they were] spread out1
- abandon1
- and he has abandoned1
- and it left [them]1
- and it spread out1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 24
- Hc/Vqw3ms6
- Hc/VNw3mp3
- Hc/Vqq1cs3
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular3
- Hc/Vqq1cs/Sp2ms2
- Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3ms2
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 3rd person common plural2
- verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular2
- verb · simple (qal), completed action · 2nd person masculine singular2
- Hc/Vqq2ms/Sp3fs1
- HC/Vqu1cp1
- Hc/Vqw3fs1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- Hc/Vqw3ms · 6
- Hc/VNw3mp · 3
- Hc/Vqq1cs · 3
- HVqi3ms · 3
- Hc/Vqq1cs/Sp2ms · 2
- Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3ms · 2
- HVNp3cp · 2
- HVqj2ms · 2
- HVqp2ms · 2
- Hc/Vqq2ms/Sp3fs · 1
- HC/Vqu1cp · 1
- Hc/Vqw3fs · 1
All 40, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Judges2 occurrences
- Judges 6:13נְטָשָׁ֣נוּnetashanuverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”here: he has abandoned us
- Judges 15:9וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּvaiyinateshuHc/VNw3mpThen the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.here: and they were spread out
1 Samuel7 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 4:2וַתִּטֹּשׁ֙vatitoshHc/Vqw3fsThe Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.here: and it spread out
- 1 Samuel 10:2נָטַ֤שׁnatashverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singularWhen you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’here: he has abandoned
- 1 Samuel 12:22יִטֹּ֤שׁyitoshverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singularIndeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.here: he will abandon
- 1 Samuel 17:20וַיִּטֹּ֤שׁvaiyitoshHc/Vqw3msSo David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.here: and he left
- 1 Samuel 17:22וַיִּטֹּשׁ֩vaiyitoshHc/Vqw3msThen David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.here: and he left
- 1 Samuel 17:28נָטַ֜שְׁתָּnatashtaverb · simple (qal), completed action · 2nd person masculine singularNow when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”here: have you left
- 1 Samuel 30:16נְטֻשִׁ֖יםnetushimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluralSo he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.here: [they were] spread out
2 Samuel2 occurrences
- 2 Samuel 5:18וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּvaiyinateshuHc/VNw3mpNow the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.here: and they were spread out
- 2 Samuel 5:22וַיִּנָּֽטְשׁ֖וּvaiyinateshuHc/VNw3mpOnce again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.here: and they were spread out
Psalms3 occurrences
- Psalms 27:9תִּטְּשֵׁ֥נִיtitesheniverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singularHide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.here: you abandon me
- Psalms 78:60וַ֭יִּטֹּשׁvaiyitoshHc/Vqw3msHe abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.here: and he abandoned
- Psalms 94:14יִטֹּ֣שׁyitoshverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singularFor the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.here: he will abandon
Proverbs3 occurrences
- Proverbs 1:8תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁtitoshverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singularListen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.here: you reject
- Proverbs 6:20תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁtitoshverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singularMy son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.here: you forsake
- Proverbs 17:14נְטֽוֹשׁ׃netooshverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singularTo start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.here: abandon
Isaiah5 occurrences
- Isaiah 2:6נָטַ֗שְׁתָּהnatashtahverb · simple (qal), completed action · 2nd person masculine singularFor You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.here: you have abandoned
- Isaiah 16:8נִטְּשׁ֖וּniteshuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 3rd person common pluralFor the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.here: they were spread out
- Isaiah 21:15נְטוּשָׁ֗הnetushahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singularFor they flee from the sword— the sword that is drawn— from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.here: drawn
- Isaiah 32:14נֻטָּ֔שׁnutashverb · intensive passive (pual), completed action · 3rd person masculine singularFor the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—here: it will be forsaken
- Isaiah 33:23נִטְּשׁ֖וּniteshuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 3rd person common pluralYour ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.here: they are loose
Jeremiah5 occurrences
- Jeremiah 7:29וַיִּטֹּ֖שׁvaiyitoshHc/Vqw3msCut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’here: and he has abandoned
- Jeremiah 12:7נָטַ֖שְׁתִּיnatashtiverb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singularI have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.here: I have abandoned
- Jeremiah 15:6נָטַ֥שְׁתְּnatashtverb · simple (qal), completed action · 2nd person feminine singularYou have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.here: you abandoned
- Jeremiah 23:33וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֥יvenatashtiHc/Vqq1cs“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’here: and I will abandon
- Jeremiah 23:39וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֣יvenatashtiHc/Vqq1cstherefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.here: and I will abandon
Ezekiel4 occurrences
- Ezekiel 29:5וּנְטַשְׁתִּ֣יךָunetashtikhaHc/Vqq1cs/Sp2msI will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.here: and I will abandon you
- Ezekiel 31:12וַֽיִּטְּשֻׁ֑הוּvaiyiteshuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3msForeigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.here: and they abandoned it
- Ezekiel 31:12וַֽיִּטְּשֻֽׁהוּ׃vaiyiteshuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3msForeigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.here: and they abandoned it
- Ezekiel 32:4וּנְטַשְׁתִּ֣יךָunetashtikhaHc/Vqq1cs/Sp2msI will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.here: and I will abandon you